Comfortable Eye Mask: The Nodpod Makes the Perfect Gift

Posted by Melissa Bamberg
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February 25, 2015

Shopping Online Made Easy with Our Guide to the Most Comfortable Eye Mask

Eye masks have many benefits. Blocking out light causes your body to convert serotonin to melatonin, which is crucial for your sleep cycle and overall mood. This is especially true in modern times, since exposing your optic nerves to artificial light at night suppresses melatonin production, throwing off your internal clock.

Melatonin is also an antioxidant that helps prevent tumors. The last thing you want to do at night is expose yourself to melatonin-suppressing artificial light, so it should be clear that wearing a comfortable eye mask to bed can help keep you healthy.

An eye mask can be preferable to over-the-counter melatonin supplements because according to an MIT study, commercial pills contain ten times the effective dosage. At this high a dose, the body develops a tolerance too quickly.

There are many eye masks on the market. In this blog post, we’ve made shopping online easy for you, with a guide to buying the most comfortable eye mask.

Go Strapless

We’ve shown that eye masks can play an important part in a healthy lifestyle. But you shouldn’t have to sacrifice your comfort. The adjustable straps and elastic bands of typical eye masks may be too tight, or feel unnatural. You want something that feels like it’s barely there, but makes a big difference. Our suggestion? Go strapless!

Consider a more comfortable eye mask like the nodpod. The nodpod is an elongated eye mask that straplessly attaches to your pillow, not your face. This keeps it from getting in the way, so it feels more like natural sleeping, and also allows it to fit the contours of any facial shape. By revitalizing the conventional design, the nodpod ups the ante for comfort.

Two Sides to the Story

The nodpod is filled with nontoxic, BPA-free beads for soothing pressure. Stitching separates each pod so that the beads are distributed equally. Each side is a different fabric: one side feels cooler, while the other side feels warmer. Please note that we strongly recommend againstmicrowaving any type of fabric. If you want to intensify the cooling sensation for a massage, you can put your nodpod in the freezer.

Encourage Good Habits

Getting a good night’s rest is crucial for being productive and feeling good. The nodpod is flexible enough to allow for various sleeping positions, but its pillow-attaching encourages sleeping on your back. This is good sleep hygiene according to CNN, who reports that the best sleeping positions are on your back and on your side, in that order. CNN also states that sleeping on your stomach is the worst.

Sleeping on your back keeps your spine in a neutral position, and also reduces wrinkles. However, if you snore or suffer from sleep apnea, CNN recommends sleeping on your side. Since the nodpod accommodates sleeping on your back or side, but not sleeping on your stomach, it’s not only a comfortable eye mask, it also encourages good sleep hygiene.

Invest In the Nodpod

In this post, we discussed aspects of a comfortable eye mask. Strapless design, beads for added weight, equal weight distribution, flexibility of use, and encouragement of good sleep habits all make the nodpod a strong candidate. We hope this blog post has helped your online shopping quest for the best and most comfortable eye mask, and we hope you consider how the nodpod can improve your sleep quality and overall health.